The Big Book of Science Fiction
Subtitle: The Ultimate Collection
By: edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1178
ISBN-13: 9781101910092
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Science fiction
Description: What if life was neverending? What if you could change your body to adapt to an alien ecology? What if the pope were a robot? Spanning galaxies and millennia, this must-have anthology showcases classic contributions from H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Octavia E. Butler, and Kurt Vonnegut, alongside a century of the eccentrics, rebels, and visionaries who have inspired generations of readers. Within its pages, youll find beloved worlds of space opera, hard SF, cyberpunk, the New Wave, and more. Learn about the secret history of science fiction, from titans of literature who also wrote SF to less well-known authors from more than twenty-five countries, some never before translated into English. In The Big Book of Science Fiction, literary power couple Ann and Jeff VanderMeer transport readers from Mars to Mechanopolis, planet Earth to parts unknown. Immerse yourself in the genre that predicted electric cars, space tourism, and smartphones. Sit back, buckle up, and dial in the coordinates, as this stellar anthology has got worlds within worlds.
Table of contents: label: The Star
title: H. G. Wells
pagenum: 1; label: Sultana's Dream
title: Rokheya Shekhawat Hossain
pagenum: 9; label: The Triumph of Mechanics
title: Karl Hans Strobl
pagenum: 17; label: The New Overworld
title: Paul Scheerbart
pagenum: 25; label: Elements of Pataphysics
title: Alfred Jarry
pagenum: 30; label: Mechanopolis
title: Miguel de Unamuno
pagenum: 37; label: The Doom of Principal City
title: Yefim Zozulya
pagenum: 41; label: The Comet
title: W. E. B. Du Bois
pagenum: 53; label: The Fate of the Poseidonia
title: Clare Winger Harris
pagenum: 62; label: The Star Stealers
title: Edmond Hamilton
pagenum: 76; label: The Conquest of Gola
title: Leslie F. Stone
pagenum: 98; label: A Martian Odyssey
title: Stanley G. Weinbaum
pagenum: 108; label: The Last Poet and the Robots
title: A. Merritt
pagenum: 124; label: The Microscopic Giants
title: Paul Ernst
pagenum: 133; label: Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
title: Jorge Luis Borges
pagenum: 144; label: Desertion
title: Clifford D. Simak
pagenum: 156; label: September 2005: The Martian
title: Ray Bradbury
pagenum: 164; label: Baby HP
title: Juan José Arreola
pagenum: 173; label: Surface Tension
title: James Blish
pagenum: 176; label: Beyond Lies the Wub
title: Philip K. Dick
pagenum: 215; label: The Snowball Effect
title: Katherine Maclean
pagenum: 221; label: Prott
title: Margaret St. Clair
pagenum: 230; label: The Liberation of Earth
title: William Tenn
pagenum: 240; label: Let Me Live in a House
title: Chad Oliver
pagenum: 252; label: The Star
title: Arthur C. Clarke
pagenum: 270; label: Grandpa
title: James H. Schmitz
pagenum: 275; label: The Game of Rat and Dragon
title: Cordwainer Smith
pagenum: 290; label: The Last Question
title: Isaac Asimov
pagenum: 300; label: Stranger Station
title: Damon Knight
pagenum: 309; label: Sector General
title: James White
pagenum: 325; label: The Visitors
title: Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
pagenum: 354; label: Pelt
title: Carol Emshwiller
pagenum: 365; label: The Monster
title: Gérard Klein
pagenum: 373; label: The Man Who Lost the Sea
title: Theodore Sturgeon
pagenum: 382; label: The Waves
title: Silvina Ocampo
pagenum: 390; label: Plenitude
title: Will Worthington
pagenum: 395; label: The Voices of Time
title: J. G. Ballard
pagenum: 403; label: The Astronaut
title: Valentina Zhuravlyova
pagenum: 424; label: The Squid Chooses Its Own Ink
title: Adolfo Bioy Casares
pagenum: 436; label: 2 B R 0 2 B
title: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
pagenum: 446; label: A Modest Genius
title: Vadim Shefner
pagenum: 452; label: Day of Wrath
title: Sever Gansovsky
pagenum: 462; label: The Hands
title: John Baxter
pagenum: 478; label: Darkness
title: André Carneiro
pagenum: 484; label: "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman
title: Harlan Ellison
pagenum: 491; label: Nine Hundred Grandmothers
title: R. A. Lafferty
pagenum: 500; label: Day Million
title: Frederik Pohl
pagenum: 508; label: Student Body
title: F. L. Wallace
pagenum: 514; label: Aye, and Gomorrah
title: Samuel R. Delany
pagenum: 527; label: The Hall of Machines
title: Langdon Jones
pagenum: 534; label: Soft Clocks
title: Yoshio Aramaki
pagenum: 542; label: Three from Moderan
title: David R. Bunch
pagenum: 555; label: Let Us Save the Universe
title: Stanislaw Lem
pagenum: 569; label: Vaster Than Empires and More Slow
title: Ursula K. Le Guin
pagenum: 577; label: Good News from the Vatican
title: Robert Silverberg
pagenum: 596; label: When It Changed
title: Joanna Russ
pagenum: 602; label: And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side
title: James Tiptree Jr.
pagenum: 608; label: Where Two Paths Cross
title: Dmitri Bilenkin
pagenum: 615; label: Standing Woman
title: Yasutaka Tsutsui
pagenum: 625; label: The IWM 1000
title: Alicia Yánez Cossío
pagenum: 632; label: The House of Compassionate Sharers
title: Michael Bishop
pagenum: 636; label: Sporting with the Chid
title: Barrington J. Bayley
pagenum: 655; label: Sandkings
title: George R. R. Martin
pagenum: 667; label: Wives
title: Lisa Tuttle
pagenum: 692; label: The Snake Who Had Read Chomsky
title: Josephine Saxton
pagenum: 699; label: Reiko's Universe Box
title: Kajio Shinji
pagenum: 712; label: Swarm
title: Bruce Sterling
pagenum: 720; label: Mondocane
title: Jacques Barbéri
pagenum: 736; label: Blood Music
title: Greg Bear
pagenum: 740; label: Bloodchild
title: Octavia E. Butler
pagenum: 755; label: Variation on a Man
title: Pat Cadigan
pagenum: 768; label: Passing as a Flower in the City of the Dead
title: S. N. Dyer
pagenum: 782; label: New Rose Hotel
title: William Gibson
pagenum: 794; label: Pots
title: C. J. Cherryh
pagenum: 802; label: Snow
title: John Crowley
pagenum: 820; label: The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things
title: Karen Joy Fowler
pagenum: 830; label: The Unmistakable Smell of Wood Violets
title: Angélica Gorodischer
pagenum: 839; label: The Owl of Bear Island
title: Jon Bing
pagenum: 846; label: Readers of the Lost Art
title: Élizabeth Vonarburg
pagenum: 853; label: A Gift from the Culture
title: Iain M. Banks
pagenum: 864; label: Paranamanco
title: Jean-Claude Dunyach
pagenum: 875; label: Crying in the Rain
title: Tanith Lee
pagenum: 886; label: The Frozen Cardinal
title: Michael Moorcock
pagenum: 897; label: Rachel in Love
title: Pat Murphy
pagenum: 905; label: Sharing Air
title: Manjula Padmanabhan
pagenum: 924; label: Schwarzschild Radius
title: Connie Willis
pagenum: 928; label: All the Hues of Hell
title: Gene Wolfe
pagenum: 940; label: Vacuum States
title: Geoffrey A. Landis
pagenum: 949; label: Two Small Birds
title: Han Song
pagenum: 955; label: Burning Sky
title: Rachel Pollack
pagenum: 961; label: Before I Wake
title: Kim Stanley Robinson
pagenum: 969; label: Death Is Static Death Is Movement
title: Misha Nogha
pagenum: 977; label: The Brains of Rats
title: Michael Blumlein
pagenum: 991; label: Gorgonoids
title: Leena Krohn
pagenum: 1002; label: Vacancy for the Post of Jesus Christ
title: Kojo Laing
pagenum: 1008; label: The Universe of Things
title: Gwyneth Jones
pagenum: 1016; label: The Remoras
title: Robert Reed
pagenum: 1024; label: The Ghost Standard
title: William Tenn
pagenum: 1044; label: Remnants of the Virago Crypto-System
title: Geoffrey Maloney
pagenum: 1051; label: How Alex Became a Machine
title: Stepan Chapman
pagenum: 1056; label: The Poetry Cloud
title: Cixin Liu
pagenum: 1076; label: Story of Your Life
title: Ted Chiang
pagenum: 1097; label: Craphound
title: Cory Doctorow
pagenum: 1126; label: The Slynx
title: Tatyana Tolstaya
pagenum: 1138; label: Baby Doll
title: Johanna Sinisalo
pagenum: 1146